Offers a brief explication of commonality analysis; a step-by-step discussion of how communication researchers may perform commonality analyses using output from a computer-assisted statistical analysis program; and provides an extended example illustrating a commonality analysis. (JMF)

The usual interpretation of suppressor effects in a multiple regression equation assumes that the correlations among variables have been generated by a particular structural model. How such a regression equation is interpreted is shown to be dependent on the structural model deemed appropriate. (Author/JKS)

It is shown how partial covariance, part and partial correlation, and regression weights can be estimated and tested for significance by means of a factor analytic model. Comparable partial covariance, correlations, and regression weights have identical significance tests. (Author)

An example demonstrates that Joreskog's suggested sufficient conditions for identifying unknown parameters in a confirmatory factor analytic model with correlated factors are not sufficient. Sufficient conditions are presented. (Author/JKS)

It was found that teachers' own views on pupil control predicted their pupil control behavior, while organizational pressures, represented by teacher perceptions of the pupil control views of colleagues and the principal, failed to do so. (Author/IRT)

Describes an inductive approach to the evaluation of developmental studies programs using multiple regression analysis to explore variables that contribute to program success. (DR)

Examines the relationship between two dimensions of organization--centralization and formalization--and two aspects of employee orientation--subordinate loyalty and esprit. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the relationships were somewhat more complicated than originally hypothesized. (Author)

Discusses findings of an evaluation of university Web-based courses that used the Input-Environment-Outcome assessment model to control for student characteristics in order to decrease bias. Results of multiple regression analysis supported the view that students' satisfaction was influenced by the online environment and was not due to student…

Compares differences in educational attainment and income between a group of Black females who became mothers while adolescents and a group who delayed childbearing, at three different points in their lives. Finds that early parenthood decreases educational attainment and income in the early and middle adult years. (FMW)

Explored relationship between religious commitment and adaptation to widowhood among 159 widowed elderly involved in southern Californian support groups. Grief, depression, and intrinsic-extrinsic religiousness were assessed and then analyzed via hierarchical multiple regression procedures. Higher extrinsicness (religion as a means to…

Discusses the nature, power, and limitations of four multivariate techniques: factor analysis, multiple analysis of variance, multiple regression, and multiple discriminant analysis. Shows how decision trees assist in interpreting results. (SK)

Presents the results of multiple regression analysis, test-retest analysis, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis of the Computer Attitude Scale in order to assess the instrument's predictive ability, construct validity, and reliability. Findings indicate acceptable characteristics, including stability…

This paper encourages the use of multiple logistic analysis in early intervention research, to assess the degree of association of multiple factors (such as subject or situational characteristics) with a dichotomous outcome (such as benefitting or not benefitting from an intervention) and to estimate the probability of each outcome. (JDD)